RE: 64 bit Windows... -- MIDRANGE-L

>Piloted this? Patently false. 

Why is that false? I don't know the entire article, but are you saying
that they (MS) haven't been "piloting" terminal server on 64-bit, I
doubt it. I don't see any problem with that statement.

Obviously my MS-bent is, um, well documented <G>, but the bottom line is
this, you're[1] fighting the wrong battle. MS is making marketing noise,
has always made marketing noise, and probably will always make marketing
noise. Heck, MS is making more marketing noise in iSeries marketing with
the Midrange Alliance than IBM is making noise in iSeries marketing, and
that's sad. 

Constantly telling the world why MS is bad isn't the way to win
converts. No one is going to use an iSeries because you tell them that
Windows sucks. You've got to tell them why to use iSeries, not why not
to use Windows. IBM made the same mistake with OS/2. I recall the
"better windows than Windows" approach to marketing OS/2. Well look, if
all I'm doing is running Windows apps I'm going to run Windows, it just
makes sense. 

Also keep in mind that telling the world that we've had "64 bit" for 10
years does one of a couple of things. One, people simply don't believe
you because 64 bit is "new" and it's "just getting started" now (at
least that's what marketing tells them), or they do believe you, but
hell if it's had it for 10 years it's ancient by todays standards, and
that reinforces the "old technology" idea, or they believe you, but
dismiss it because they can't get their brain around it. I was involved
in the early cable modem rollout on Long Island (had one in '96) and
Cablevision had a couple of meeting with us early adopters to talk about
advertising "100 times faster than dialup". We all agreed, they couldn't
do that then (28.8 was fast), there was no point of reference. If we all
drive 55 miles an hour, we can imagine what 100 would be like, or maybe
150, but we simply can't imagine 5000 miles an hour, no point of
reference.

I know what I think everytime I read a statement that's along the lines
of "so what, we've had that for xxx years, and you're just getting it
now." I think, "so what, I've got it now too. What do you have that I
don't have w/my windows solution." Look, Ford was pumping out Model Ts
long before Toyota heard of a car, but that doesn't mean that I sould be
driving a Model T today. What you provided me yesterday is useless, I
can get it anywhere, what are you going to provide me tomorrow?

-Walden

[1] Editorial use of "you", not aimed at you, Vern, specifically.

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